St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03

little fellow writes out as his answer "a
system of mountains because the word
sounds like it. 1t is the same case when
asked to define the word ''alias'' he replies
"a good man in the Bible" or to t he word
tenacious" he says 'ten acres of land"
In the same mannerh he relies on his intui
tive knowledge and perceptive qualities for
discerning the fitness of things when he
tells his teacher that a Republican is "a
sinner mentioned in the Bible" Or he
forms his ideas of what things ought to be
by what he sees at home, as for instance
when asked to construct sentence with
the word speculate" in it, he sits down
and writes: 1.-THE men employed by the
gas company go round and Speculate the
meter" The boy got that idea from look
ing over his fathers gas bills. And another
illustration of constructing curjously
plausible sentence, in which the pupil
seemed to know what he meant, and yet
knowing all the time that he didn't,
was where he wrote: 1.-The super
cllious girl acted with vicissitude
when the perennial time came around"
The examination papers in mathe-
matics show the necessity to which
the young student is driven for relying on
his intuitive knowledge, patched up with
just such snatches of information as he has
been able to grasp in his swift race for
knowledge The following are given as eX
amples: "A circle is round, straight line
with hole in the middle;" "Things
which are equal to each other are equal to
anything else;" Parallel lines are lines
that can never meet until they run to-
gether;'' ''To find the number of square
feet in room, multiply the room by the
number of the feet. The product is the re-
suit" And so it is in geography where he
says: 1.-The principal products of the u.
s. is earthquakes and volcanoes" or.
in history: washington wrote the
Declaration of Independence in 1892
These are laughable specimens of modern
school examinations and yet they are
lamentable illustrations of the lack of
thoroughness in our educational system.
AN ADVANCING CIVILIZATION.
One of the most striking as well as
agreeable indications of the advancing
progress of modern civilization is found in
hS ioSp biaU ~ lltlo COlllC W DdSS Ill hcIl-
lucky that civil authority is stronger than
mob law. In state where there has been
so much lawlessness and where civil au-
thority has been set at defiance from time
immemorial, it is an agreeable change of
affairs to see mob dispersed in the streets
OF the principal city of the state, and that,
too, without the use of fiiearms And
what is more, it was case in which, if
mob violence could ever be justiiable, this
was an instance. Two brutes in human
form had committed an objectionable crime
They had invaded the sanctity of a re-
spectacle home and outraged a female in
mate. 1t was crime which would have
stirred the Indignation of any community
The perpetrators of the crime were caught
and lodged in the city Jail at Louisville. 1t
was expected that the tiends would
such an event the judge of
the circuit court communicated his
apprehensions to the mayor of the city and
to the governor of the state. and asked them
to take such steps as might be necessary to
prevent violence. Both officials responded
with alacrity to the appeals The mayor
ordered the entire police force to repair to
the Jail and to hold themselves subject to
the order of the circuit judge. The gov
ernor telegraphed similar instructions to the
militia companies in the city. This action
was most timely, for scarcely had the police
and militia reported to the Jail when great
mob came surging up the streets. all bent
on lynching the prisoners. With the cool
ness and determination of veteran soldier,
Judge JACKSON directed the militia to be
held in reserve, and ordered the police to
make charge on the mob. The order was
obeyed and successfully executed. With
out the firing of single gun the mob was
dispersed and the ringleaders arrested and
lodged in Jail. 1t was triumph of law
over mob violence. which will go long
way in redeeming Kentucky from the stain
which has hitherto rested upon it, 1t will
set the city of Louisville and the state of
Kentucky at least twenty years forward in
theirs development.
For this onward stride in its development
the city of Louisville is indebted no less to
the GOODNESS of the determined judge than
to the wise utterances Of the public press
which had helped to educate the people I'D
to law-abiding standard. The Courier
Journal has taken conspicuous part in
this work, and the influence which an ably
conducted journal can exert on commu-
nifty is forcibly illustrated in this instance
And it is always so that when the public
press and the public officials unite in their
efforts to bring about reforms in commu-
nifty success is inevitable.
STRAY SUNBEAMS.
1t is wise provision that the marriage re-
atoms of this world are not to be recognized